Peter Marber lectures on emerging markets and socioeconomic development in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, USA.

Daniel Araya is a Hult-Ashridge Research Fellow at the Hult Center for Disruptive Innovation in San Francisco, USA.

Contents

Foreword - Cathy N. Davidson

Preface

Part I: The American Tradition

1. The Yale Report of 1828

A Committee of the Corporation and the Academic Faculty

2. The Declension Narrative, the Liberal Arts College, and the University

Bruce A. Kimball

3. Amending the Liberal Arts: An Analysis of Learning Outcomes for Professional Majors

Graham N. S. Miller, Cindy A. Kilgo, Mark Archibald, and Ernest T. Pascarella

4. The Lure of Liberal Arts: Emerging Market Undergraduates in the United States

Peter Marber

5. Next-Generation Challenges for Liberal Education

Jesse H. Lytle and Daniel H. Weiss

Part II: Liberal Arts Around the World

6. Précis of a Global Liberal Education Phenomenon: The Empirical Story

Kara A. Godwin

7. The Emergence of Liberal Arts and Sciences Education in Europe: A Comparative Perspective

Marijk van der Wende

8. Thinking Critically about Liberal Arts Education: Yale-NUS College in Singapore

Charlene Tan

9. Academic Freedom and the Liberal Arts in the Middle East: Can the US Model be Replicated?

Neema Noori

10. The African Liberal Arts: Heritage, Challenges and Prospects

Grant Lilford

Part III: Evolutions and Revolutions in the Global Age

11. Is "Design Thinking" the New Liberal Arts?

Peter N. Miller

12. Hong Kong's Liberal Arts Laboratory: Design-Thinking, Practical Wisdom, and the Common Core@HKU

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

13. Liberal Arts Education in the Age of Machine Intelligence
    Daniel Araya
14. Work, Service, and the Liberal Arts: Campus and Community as Pedagogical Resources
    Steven L. Solnick
15. The Promise of Liberal Education in the Global Age
    Christopher B. Nelson
16. Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global Connection
    Martha Nussbaum

About the Editors and Contributors

Index

Advanced and developing countries across the globe are embracing the liberal arts approach in higher education to foster more innovative human capital to compete in the global economy. Even as interest in the tradition expands outside the United States, can the democratic philosophy underlying the liberal arts tradition be sustained? Can developing countries operating under heavy authoritarian systems cultivate schools predicated on open discussion and debate? Can entrenched specialist systems in Europe and Asia successfully adopt the multidisciplinary liberal arts model? These are some of the questions put to leading scholars and senior higher education practitioners within this edited collection. Beginning with historical context, international contributors explore the contours of liberal arts education amid public calls for change in the United States, the growing global interest in the approach outside the United States, as well as the potential of liberal arts philosophy in a global knowledge economy.